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Definition: MONTEM

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Noun 1. A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.[Websters].

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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Date "Montem" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1518. (references)

Etymology:Montem \Mon"tem\, noun. [Latin expression ad montem to the hillock. See Mount, noun.]. (references)


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Eton Montem 7     Eton Montem 7
Montem Mound 3     Montem Mound 3

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